New Release Review: The Wish by Nicholas Sparks
About the Book
From the author of The Longest Ride and The Return comes a novel about the enduring legacy of first love, and the decisions that haunt us forever.
1996 was the year that changed everything for Maggie Dawes. Sent away at sixteen to live with an aunt she barely knew in Ocracoke, a remote village on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, she could think only of the friends and family she left behind . . . until she met Bryce Trickett, one of the few teenagers on the island. Handsome, genuine, and newly admitted to West Point, Bryce showed her how much there was to love about the wind-swept beach town—and introduced her to photography, a passion that would define the rest of her life.
By 2019, Maggie is a renowned travel photographer. She splits her time between running a successful gallery in New York and photographing remote locations around the world. But this year she is unexpectedly grounded over Christmas, struggling to come to terms with a sobering medical diagnosis. Increasingly dependent on a young assistant, she finds herself becoming close to him.
As they count down the last days of the season together, she begins to tell him the story of another Christmas, decades earlier—and the love that set her on a course she never could have imagined.
Review
The Wish was a touching, pull on your heartstrings story. Much like many of Sparks other novels, it wasn't hard to fall in love with the characters. I easily lost myself in their story, and I enjoyed every minute spent reading about their lives and relationships, and experiencing with them the moments of happiness, sadness, love, loss, and everything in between.
Though some outcomes were predictable, for me it did not affect my reading experience in a negative way. Nothing made me want to put this book down.
If you love Nicholas Sparks's traditional style of sweet and emotional storytelling, check out The Wish today!
*TW/CW: Cancer; Depression
**Complimentary copy for review provided by Grand Central Publishing. All opinions expressed here are honest and entirely my own.
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About the Author
With over 100 million copies of his books sold, Nicholas Sparks is one of the world's most beloved storytellers. His novels include sixteen #1 New York Times bestsellers, and all of his books, including Three Weeks with My Brother, the memoir he wrote with his brother, Micah, have been New York Times and international bestsellers, and were translated into more than fifty languages. Eleven of Nicholas Sparks's novels—The Choice, The Longest Ride, The Best of Me, Safe Haven, The Lucky One, The Last Song, Dear John, Nights in Rodanthe, The Notebook, A Walk to Remember, and Message in a Bottle—have been adapted into major motion pictures.
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